I do not know whether you ever recvd. the 240 Livres you advanced Capt. McNeill by my desire, I therefore inclose you a    Bill for 300 Livres which please to apply to that Object.   Your Friendship for me I know is of the purest kind, it is therefore such as I can best depend on when most necessary. The Doctor will show you a Letter I have written to him, I need not therefore make Repititions. I request you my dear Billy to take my memoire, and such a Recommendatory Letter as the Doctor thinks proper to give, and go immediately to Count de Vergennes. If he grants my Request, the forms of office are these. The Arrêt will be drawn out by Mr. Romain premier Commis de M. de Vergennes and he will then send it au Bureau de la Chancellerie either at Versailles or Rue de Richelieu at Paris according as M. Le Garde de Seau may happen to be in one or the other of these places. M. Etienne is the premier Secretaire at this Bureau and through him it may be immediately sealed. Thence it will be sent a la Caisse de Seau passage des petit peres place Victoire and a M. Jourdan (or some such name) is the Cheif, then there will be 10 or 12 Louis to pay and then it will be delivered, but it is necessary to watch all these offices or it will be delayed in some of them.

Pardon mon cher Ami de tout cet Embarras. Je sais que tu m’aime et je sais de plus que ton amitié est d’une espece a ne pas diminuer par l’infortune, si ma Conduitte est sans reproche.

Adieu. Je suis tout a toi.